University of Maryland alumna Andrea Brody will share insights from her global career in marketing and sales during the fourth annual Women Leading Women forum March 5, 2015, at the Robert H. Smith School of Business.

The Dingman Center has added to its roster of mentors and advisors by bringing on six attorneys to serve as Dingman Legal Advisors. Beginning Friday, February 6, Dingman Legal Advisors will be available on alternating Fridays to provide free legal advice to student entrepreneurs. These 30-minute appointment-only sessions will allow students to have valuable conversations regarding the legal aspects of their startup.

Super Bowl advertisers drop $4.5 million per 30-second spot, so why are they showing more and more sneak peeks before kickoff? David Godes, associate professor of marketing at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, says a tradeoff has emerged among companies anxious to win post-game polls.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (Jan. 30, 2015) — Executive education activity at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business grew by more than 22 percent in 2014— eclipsing the 7 percent industrywide rate, according to the International Consortium for Executive Education (UNICON).

All those team-building exercises aren’t enough, it turns out. Getting members of a team to pull in the same direction is harder than most managers think, according to research by Vijaya Venkataramani, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, and coauthor Matthew J. Pearsall at the Kenan-